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Hello Alan McKinnon, |
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> I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is |
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> on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just |
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> big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't |
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> expand that much over time). |
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It is faster. If I were going to use reiserfs (I use ext2 for this) I'd |
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use it with notail, the tail packing impacts performance. I'm more |
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interested in speed than saving disk space. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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We shall shortly be landing. Please return your stewardess to |
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the upright position. |
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